Keep Out
'Can I help you, sir?' said in a tone of voice meaning 'What the hell are you doing here?' by a uniformed official with a cup of tea in a cubby- hole and the sporting page of......
Guilty Splendour
By STRIX A WHIFF of guilty' splendour goes with the A possession of a swimming-pool. It is an un- English amenity. Though congruous to California, it has in these islands all......
City And Suburban
'By JOHN BETJEMAN L ST week I was standing on the seventeenth- century walls of The Citadel at Plymouth. Wind-whipped water of lapis blue, the shadowy red sandstone cliffs above......
Semantics For Estate Agents
I believe that the correct estate-agents' definition of a 'Mansion' is a house with back and front stairs, but what about 'Mansions' in the plural when applied to blocks of......
The Three Towns
Strangers do not realise how rich in fine build- ings and prospects are the three 'towns which compose Plymouth. Devonport has its Doric Guildhall and Naval Column and Egyptian......
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